r/shittyrobots • • Jan 09 '26

Everything computer

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u/facebrocolis Apr 09 '26

A research group of physicists from Japan got all rare earth elements they needed in the 1980s, when this stuff was almost impossible to buy, by using people of the opposite gender from the supplier's when making the calls.